Dr. Charlotte Hobbs joins the faculty of the UC San Diego Division of Dysmorphology and Teratology and the Center for Better Beginnings. Dr. Hobbs also serves as Vice President and Chief Research & Clinical Management Officer of Rady Children’s Institute Genomic Medicine.
Dr. Chambers receives the Health Sciences Women Leadership Award from the UC San Diego Office of Faculty Affairs. The award recognizes the leadership and extraordinary accomplishments of women leaders in health sciences.
UC San Diego launches the Human Milk Institute to accelerate research into the nature, biology, and therapeutic potential of human milk to prevent or treat infant and adult diseases. The institute harmonizes efforts across multiple, ongoing programs at UC San Diego related to human milk and lactation, including the Center’s Mommy’s Milk Human Milk Research Biorepository.
Dr. Chambers is named the new Division Chief, and the Division is renamed as the Division of Environmental Science and Health.
Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones officially retires as Division Chief of Division of Dysmorphology & Teratology at UC San Diego and from the Rady Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics. After 48 years as a pediatrician and dedicated advocate for children diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, he continues to contribute to the Center through MotherToBaby California and MotherToBaby Pregnancy Studies activities.
Dr. Gretchen Bandoli is named Director of the Center for Population Research and Scientific Methods at the UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Institute.
UC San Diego receives three awards to support the national Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study. This study is a multi-site, NIH-funded study that will recruit 7,500 pregnant people across the U.S. and follow the mothers and their baby for 10 years to better understand infant and childhood neurodevelopment. The awards include serving as the Administrative Coordinating Center for all HBCD study sites (PIs: Christina Chambers, UC San Diego; and Charles Nelson, Harvard Medical School); serving as the Data Coordinating Center for all HBCD study sites (PIs: Anders Dale, UC San Diego; Damien Fair, University of Minnesota; and Chris Smyser, Washington University); and funding to support San Diego County as one of the study recruitment sites (PIs: Gretchen Bandoli and Sheila Gahagan, UC San Diego).
Dr. Chambers receives the Community Leader Award from the San Diego Chapter of the March of Dimes.
Dr. Chambers is selected to give the Lucille Hurley Distinguished Lectureship to the UC Davis Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology.
Dr. Jones and Dr. del Campo publish the 8th edition of the book, “Smith’s Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation”.
